Doncaster council set for coordinated strike

The Unison members’ action, on the same day as the Birmingham council strikes, comes after they joined the united strikes on 30 June.

Last Thursday bosses announced over 1,000 job cuts—as well as massive attacks on pay and conditions.

“They want a bloodbath,” Unison branch secretary Jim Board told Socialist Worker. “The average mid-grade worker would lose £3,000—while being expected to work for longer. People would have to strike for a month for it to cost them anything like that.”

The branch executive met on the day the assault was announced—and agreed to call the strike at less than two weeks’ notice.